tonight on "rock center," the stunning news about sitting down. tonight natalie morales reports on ground-breaking new research on what we're doing to our bodies and one simple thing you're probably doing right now that could be even more important than going to the gym. >> it's almost sort of like owning a really cool sports car and letting it idle all day long. the engine gets gunked up. also it's the danger everybody knows about yet we still see it all the time. the people who are texting while driving despite knowing the risks. we wanted to know what happens to the drivers who have killed someone while texting. >> the victims like my father and our family are being victimized even more. >> if it were my kid driving the car, i wouldn't want the book thrown at my kid. >> i have a daughter myself and i think about it all the time. also, a star of the book of

mormon who these days plays a member of the first family on tv. josh gad sits down tonight with jenna bush hager. >> you can hug him. >> who was actually a member of the first family in real life. >> if you go out and you do something wrong, it makes the nightly news. >> i do have a little experience in that. >> yeah, how did that work out? >> it didn't work out great for me. plus, the new fork that's supposed to keep us all from getting fat. that and more as "rock center" gets under way. good evening and welcome to "rock center." the story we're going to begin with here tonight may change the way you look at sitting down, even just sitting down to watch tv for the rest of your life. sitting down, as i am doing now, is rest, and rest, especially at this hour of the day, feels pretty good compared to the alternative of getting up and moving around. but what you're about to see puts health and fitness and exercise in a whole new light. and make no mistake, this is indeed big news to most of us.

here's nbc's natalie morales. >> reporter: we sit and we sit and we sit. at work, at school, even at play. we've never done it more. and according to dr. james levine, it's hazardous to our health. >> sitting all day long is literally killing us. >> reporter: levine treats obesity at the mayo clinic, one of the country's premiere research hospitals. and his research has turned our thinking about exercise on its head. a daily dose of exercise used to be the perfect prescription for good health. thanks to levine, we now know that a trip to the gym, while beneficial, can't undo the damage done sitting all day. so naturally we couldn't pull up a chair to talk to him about this. >> very interestingly, a few years ago i would have actually said to you, you know, the person who's doing that session

at the gym is doing everything they're need to do. but the data coming out shows that is not the case. it appears that what is critical and maybe even more important than going to the gym is breaking up that sitting time. >> what is happening in the body that makes it so lethal, as you say? >> as soon as a person sits down for a prolonged period of time, the metabolic engine goes to sleep. >> reporter: sitting isn't pretty. the muscles stop moving altogether and the heart slows. then the body's calorie burning rate plummets and fat and cholesterol levels rise. >> so you say sitting is toxic. >> the body simply isn't built to sit all day long. it's an unnatural way for us to be. it's almost like sort of owning a really cool sports car and letting it idle all day long. the engine gets gunked up. that's what happens to our bodies. >> reporter: the shifts from rural life to the industrial revolution to the car and computer revolution all

conspired to make us walk less and sit more. >> it is inconceivable that we were ever going to be a group of population, a species sitting on our bottoms all day long. we're just not meant to do that. is it a surprise that the consequences are devastating? no. >> reporter: how did levine figure this out? he designed an experiment that asked a simple question. if two people eat the same thing and do not exercise, why does one gain weight and not the other? his findings were a key component to understanding obesity. more than 15 years since those early studies, there is a growing scientific consensus about the health risks of staying sedentary. >> people who are not obese do move more then, is that right? >> people who are lean, even who don't go to the gym, move about two and a quarter hours more a day than people with obesity.

somehow those individuals are finding the opportunity to walk to the trash can, walk down to accounting, to go to the bathroom or whatever, to the coffee shop, whatever it may be. >> reporter: to do his studies, levine needed a way to get an accurate measurement. he designed special tracking gear with sensors attached. the readouts are his ekg of how much a person moves and with how much exertion. >> today is the day i get my magic underpants. >> reporter: so we decided to try it out, and gave him three human guinea pigs, including me. >> the good thing is my job requires movement and spa spontaneity. >> i am up and down a lot. >> reporter: but "today" show producer joanne lemarka worries about the time she spends at her desk. >> we talk in the office about how much we sit and what is that doing to the span of our life, so it concerned me. >> well, it starts early. the restaurant opens early and

it's go, go, go. >> reporter: a restaurant manager is constantly on her feet for work. >> you have to move. >> reporter: after the three of us wore the sensors for 24 hours, dr. levine analyzed our movement. the good news, we are all moving more than we thought. >> so here we see joanne, severa and natalie. the red is sit, the blue is standing and walking and the green is sleeping. the magnitude of the difference is extraordinary. >> reporter: levine had high praise for the amount of time severa was on her feet. >> i think this belongs to the museum of modern art. it is literally a beautiful depiction of a person's movement. >> reporter: but he always seize she wasn't moving at full tilt. >> constant movement but the intensity isn't that great. >> reporter: as for joanne, even though she feels chained to her desk, she's actually moving quite a bit. >> you have this sort of quite

deep natural impulse to move. >> reporter: even the tiniest of movements counts. >> you are fidgeting twice as much as everyone else. you could add up everyone else's fidgets and you're doing more. >> you're saying we need to fidget more. >> that's exactly right. the fidgeting is the brain's signal to move. when you see somebody who's naturally fidgeting, those fidgets are probably the propellant for them to get up and move. >> reporter: as for me. >> natalie, you're the poster child. what we're seeing is you're maxing out the sensors at multiple times. >> reporter: almost ten years ago, levine decided he could not ignore what his research was telling him, and so he invented a way to do more walking while working. the treadmill desk. >> when i first came up with the idea i was thought to be a complete lunatic. people were writing me notes.

jim, you must be joking. >> he consulted with a company to get the desk made but received no profit on his sales. with 60,000 on the market thus far, they're showing up in more and more places. but if you're sitting on your couch thinking there's no treadmill desk in your future, the doctor is in. >> what's the prescription? doctor's orders. >> what i say to my patients, if you're sitting for an hour, it's too long. so to me the simple prescription is up and moving ten minutes every hour. >> so i'm happy to report as we've been walking and talking, i've been doing my job effectively, i hope, you've been doing your job -- >> effect i'vely, i hope. >> you have. we've logged over 1.3 miles. >> isn't that totally cool? the one-mile interview. >> with our thanks to natalie morales for getting into that story. here's a proposition for you. instead of sitting through our commercial breaks tonight, get up and walk around during each commercial break, as i plan to. pay close attention to the commercials, buy all the products tomorrow as you

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welcome back. just before us tonight was the premiere of "1600 penn" a comedic portrayal of the life of the first family in the white house. josh gad plays the son in the series, which he helped to create. tonight we've asked him to sit down with our colleague, jenna bush hager, who played an actual member of the first family during the presidency of her father.

well, tonight they compare notes on the fictional white house versus the actual one. >> it turns out skip is moving back home to the white house, so on behalf of all late-night comics -- >> you're welcome. >> reporter: josh gad is making a name for himself as a comedian and is tackling a new world that hits close to home for me. nbc's new family comedy, "1600 penn," he plays skip, the loving son of a president. >> deep down, i know that you are awesome. >> reporter: so what is your secret service code name? >> my secret service code name is meatball. >> and that's because of? >> i think it's self-explanatory. what's your secret service code name. >> twinkle. >> and that's because? [ indicating ] >> skip is a major underachiever and incredibly bumbling. >> oh, no! >> what's the most embarrassing thing your character ever did in the white house?

>> pick of the litter, thrown a flaming chair out of a window. i think that's going to be hard to top. what about you? >> what happens in the white house, stays in the white house. >> reporter: those of us with firsthand knowledge of political life, know about the intense pressure of living under a 24/7 media bubble. gad, who is also co-creator of the show, thought there must be interesting fodder when exploring life in the white house. >> what i wanted to get was a grander sense of what it means to be a kid to the president, to the first lady of the united states. you know, there are only 44 first families. >> reporter: i talked to gad from the white house. well, not really. we're at a mock-up in washington's madame tussaud's museum. >> it must be fun playing the son. >> it's crazy. if you go out and do something wrong, it makes the nightly news, which you yourself have some experience with, i understand. >> i do have a little experience in that. >> how did that work out? >> it didn't work out great for

me. >> reporter: yes, a picture can be worth a thousand words. and it's that intense scrutiny that gad and his writers hopes resonates with viewers, being an ordinary family -- >> her friends told her to blow off some steam, have a one-night stand, so she did. >> reporter: suddenly thrust into an extraordinary situation. >> you've got to write something about the crazy white house family. i'll take the bullet, write the article about me. >> i did, last week. >> can you send me a link to that? >> i love you -- >> reporter: in the series bill pullman is the president. you might remember he was also the president in the movie "independence day." >> mr. president, we can discuss this on the way. >> i'm not leaving. >> so are you promising this time around to protect the white house better than you did last time? >> you know, those -- that was a threat from outside. and now i'm facing a threat from within.

>> dad, sorry i let you down. i'll make it up to you. >> reporter: the threat in the series comes from gad's character, skip. in real life, at 31 he's a married father of a 2-year-old and says he's always wanted to work in comedy. >> i was about 4 years old and my parents took me to the catskill mountains to this comedy act. like where do you catch a kafilta fish. at the bottom of the bowl. it was like awful humor. and i laughed so hard that everybody in the room looked at me. i didn't get the jokes. but what i knew at that moment was that that's what i meanted to do. >> reporter: gad got his big break when he joined the cast of a then untested and controversial comedy called "the book of mormon." it turned into a success,

opening doors. >> then how did this happen? >> reporter: he got a job on "the daily show" poking fun of himself. >> what are you guys doing? come on. frame out. what are you doing? >> reporter: and nearly everyone else. >> those idiots said i flew a kite in the middle of an electrical storm. do i seem like a suicidal schmuck to you? >> you've got from religion to politics. what's next? >> sex. >> is your character -- >> i am me, josh gad, by 32 will be doing porn. >> oh, that's good. >> reporter: but for now gad is sticking with comedy. >> i am really good at impressions. jimmy, you coming home for christmas? you come to dinner? you're breaking my heart, girl. >> president clinton. >> that's right. >> thank goodness we both have amazing metabolisms. >> reporter: there's one last thing i thought i could help gad's tv character with. >> dad! >> reporter: since his father, the president, won't give him a

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welcome back. if god forbid someone came into your house and took the life of a loved one, you would expect there to be tough consequences. our next report is about the lives lost because of drivers texting while at the wheel, something that often goes all but unpunished. kate snow set out to report on what happens to texting drivers who cause so many accidents. what she discovered is an outrage in which many of us share the blame. >> he did everything in life, full contact. he was a force to be reckoned with, whether you were at work, whether you were at home with the family. the ski slope, get out of his way. >> reporter: 55-year-old dave muslovski was nearing retirement and determined to lose some

weight. >> this is a farewell. this is never again be seen photo. >> reporter: he just attained his goal of losing more than 100 pounds with an intense walking regimen say his wife, denise, and daughter, tina. >> nine miles every morning and nine miles every night. 18 miles a day in nine months lost 165 pounds. >> that's almost hard for me to believe. three hours each way? so six hours of walking a day. >> yes. >> reporter: dave was taking his morning walk along a highway near youngstown, ohio, two years ago when he was struck by a car driven by 19-year-old whitney yaeger. >> 911, what's your emergency? you need to slow down. i need to understand. you hit -- okay, you hit somebody? >> reporter: dave's family rushed to the hospital. >> the doctor came out and you could tell by the look on his face that there was something wrong.

and i can remember exactly what he said. your dad has some very, very, very, very, very, very critically injured. >> reporter: dai died that day from severe internal injuries. as it turns out, whitney hit him because she wasn't looking at the road, she was looking at her phone. she was texting while driving and admitted she took her eyes off the road for a full ten seconds. >> quite frankly, we hadn't known up to that point. we just assumed that it was a standard traffic accident. >> when you hear that she had been texting and driving and had admitted that -- >> there was a lot of anger. why would you take your eyes off the road? that's your job. your task is to pay attention to what you're doing. >> reporter: but the family was even more angry when they learned that whitney yaeger

would be charged with only a misdemeanor vehicular homicide. at the time texting and driving was not against the law in ohio. >> whitney, there has not been a day go by that i haven't thought about this very moment. we have so many things to say to you, but so many, many more to ask. >> reporter: in court the family begged for the harshest punishment possible for whitney. >> this tragedy was not an accident. this was the heart-breaking outcome to your selfishness and your reckless behavior. >> reporter: denise and dave were married 36 years. >> i never saw him alive that day. i never had a chance to tell him one last time how much i loved him. >> reporter: after their heart-felt plea for justice, what was the sentence? 45 days in jail for killing a man. >> i felt sick. sick to my stomach. >> you lost your husband and she got 45 days in jail. >> i felt betrayed by the system

that was put in place to help the victims. >> reporter: whitney yaeger declined our request for an interview. in a letter to nbc news, her lawyer said she's been ordered by the court to speak to young people about the dangers, and she hopes that she can prevent other similar accidents. in the opinion of the victim's family, from the minute whitney confessed she was texting while driving, the case should have been prosecuted more aggressively. >> when the accident happened, you wanted to see her charged with a felony? >> yes, correct. we felt that that was appropriate. >> you felt like she should serve a longer sentence. >> you have a fatality, not an injury. >> and it wasn't an accident. and what's happening is that the victims, like my father and our family are being victimized even more by the system. >> people are getting a slap on the wrist for this. >> reporter: jennifer smith, whose mother was killed by a distracted driver, has helped outlaw texting and driving in many states. >> the first step is to get the act illegal. but then they have to go back

and get the punishment to then fit the crime. >> reporter: jennifer and other advocates argue that texting while driving, checking messages, facebook, twitter, as shown in this footage shot with actors for a production company is a deliberate and dangerous choice, not an accident, and should be punished as such. yet across the country, drivers, many of them young people like whitney yaeger, are getting surprisingly light sentences. in california, caitlin dunaway killed a 2-year-old toddler who was crossing the street with her mother. she got five days in jail and 115 days in home confinement. in missouri, 16-year-old rachel gannon killed a 72-year-old woman and was sentenced to two days in jail. in connecticut, breanna mcewen was searching the web and killed a jogger. she served pro pabation and no l

time. >> to me there should be a consequence for your actions. >> in your ideal world, what does punishment look like for texting and driving? >> i think in each of our states, we need to make texting and driving the same punishable offense as drunk driving. normally in drunk driving cases, to my knowledge, the average is about a two to 15-year jail sentence. >> reporter: the public needs to wake up, she says, to the research that shows texting while driving is even more dangerous than drunk driving. >> texting and driving is about six to eight times as bad as driving drunk. >> six to eight times as dangerous? >> right. >> reporter: paul achly, a university of kansas cognitive psychology professor has researched texting and driving for years. >> you have to have your hands on the device and not on the wheel, you have to have your eyes off of the road and on this device, and you have to think about it. because constructing speech, even though you're typing it out, is a hard thing for the brain to do. when you're taking your eyes off

the road, between four and five seconds on average. >> that doesn't sound like very much. >> at freeway speeds four or five seconds translates to driving the length of a football field without actually looking at the roadway. it's not something i'd want to do. >> it's playing russian roulette. you can get behind the wheel and text and nothing happens. you can do it ten times, you can do it 20 times, so you got away with it 100 times. what about that 101st time? >> reporter: the hazards are very clear, but even the experts agree there are reasons we may hesitate when it comes to doling out punishment. >> i'm a parent. if it were my kid driving the car who went to send a text and accidentally hit someone, i wouldn't want the book thrown at my kid. >> which is true. i have a daughter myself, and i think about it all the time, you know, what if she would have done this to someone or what if, you know, she does do it. it's a hard thing to stop. we just have to get tough on it and teach our kids they can't do

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welcome back. here's a stat for you. other words, portable electronic devices, were involved in nearly one in four car accidents in the year 2011. and you know the problem, it's right there in the palm of your hand and available. most drivers think they can do two things at once, that they have got it handled, until they learn they can't. that even applies to drivers who consider themselves safe. here now kate snow continues her reporting. >> i sent one stupid meaningless text. lol, and killed a man. >> reporter: this recent public service campaign by at&t shows

that even the phone companies are alarmed by texting and driving. >> this is the text that my sister was reading right before she flipped her car. >> this is a problem that is on a scale beyond anything we've seen. >> reporter: distracted driving activist jennifer smith says it's about time americans worry about texting and driving as much as drinking and driving. >> i remember growing up in the '80s and drunk drivers, you looked out for them on weekends, on holidays, late at night. this is something that every minute of every day we have to be on the lookout for that person that's on the phone. >> i'm traveling north and i see this black car come speeding up the road this way. >> reporter: it was about a year ago in pennsylvania, anthony was driving with his father when he saw a car hit someone in the oncoming lane of traffic and then, to his astonishment, that car suddenly went airborne. >> in the air? >> in the air. >> in milliseconds you're seeing a car flying through the air.

>> i see passenger side, driver's side, passenger side, driver's side. and i literally remember saying to myself, i said i'm done. >> reporter: the car came crashing down right on top of the cab of anthony's truck. >> i just felt everything collapse. the roof collapse around me, the door, everything, just collapsed around me. >> you were screaming the whole time? >> i was screaming in pain the whole time. >> reporter: it took about 45 minutes to cut him out of the truck. his father suffered severe injuries in the crash, including a broken neck. anthony, who ran his own driveway paving business couldn't walk for months and needed constant care. despite multiple surgeries, anthony will never fully recover. >> both of my legs broken, my knee completely destroyed, my head broken, my pelvis broken, my brain's bleeding, i can't see out of my eyes and here i am just a wreckage of myself. and all this was inflicted upon me because you decided to have a

text message? >> you had three text conversations? >> yes. >> bill was driving that oncoming car. incredibly he escaped with minor injuries. >> the phone records show you texted close to 30, 40 times. >> yes. >> and you were pretty confident that you could keep driving and do that at the same time? >> yes. >> reporter: if anyone should have known better, it was him. bill had been convicted once and was facing a second charge for drunk driving at the time of the accident. he knew he had to stop drinking and driving, but he didn't think twice about texting. >> you were facing punishment for drinking and driving. how could you get in your car and start texting and driving? >> i didn't think nothing of it. >> you didn't think that you could hurt someone? >> no. >> you could have killed someone, bill. >> absolutely. >> what i keep coming back to is what the hell was that important? i mean -- i've never seen his text, but some frivolous junk between him and his girlfriend

or him and one of his buddies deciding what they were going to do that night, you know what i mean? >> anthony said i'd like to know what text was so important, that it hurt me and my dad for the rest of our lives. >> to answer that now, no text is that important. that's not the person i am. i made a mistake. >> you wish you could take it back, i'm sure? >> i'd give anything to take it back. i have to live with the fact that i hurt someone for something very reckless that did not need to happen. >> reporter: bill had a concussion and says he doesn't even remember what he was texting about. he's currently serving a sentence of up to 23 months in prison. he'll likely be released after nine months. but that's more than most. in ohio, whitney yaeger served only two weeks of a 45-day sentence, more typical of recent punishments for texting and driving accidents. the truth is, young people know full well they're gambling with their safety, says researcher

paul achly. in a recent study, he found a staggering 97% of students admit to sometimes texting and driving despite the risk. >> they said it was about the most dangerous thing you could do while you're driving. they know how dangerous it is. >> and yet they do it anyway? >> and yet they do it anyway. >> reporter: and let's be honest, it's not just young people. >> why do we do it then? >> what we found is when people actually engage in these behaviors, they start to perceive the driving situation as being safer than it actually is. so we fool ourselves. we fool ourselves into thinking that maybe it's not so bad. >> reporter: and there's an even more primal explanation, we're wid wired for it. >> we get a little alert message telling us someone wants to know about us, they want to talk to us. and that alert message is giving you probably a little rush of dopamine too. >> so the need for the good feeling when you get a text or answer a text overrides your feeling that this is unsafe?

>> yeah. >> i realize the severity of the incident and i think about the victim's family's pain every day. >> reporter: and when someone gets in trouble for doing it, we relate to them. >> i think what's going on is people are putting themselves in the shoes of the texting driver. they know that they could possibly get in a crash and they're hoping for some leniency if that happens. >> is 9 to 23 months enough? >> in one sense, no, absolutely not. in relation to the amount of devastation he caused my family and the other people, absolutely not. but he's 25 years old, he's a kid, he made a mistake. you know. >> reporter: a mistake or a choice? either way, advocates for harsher penalties say punishment is the only way to stop it. anthony and his family are trying to put their lives back together, but it won't be easy. he's got three-quarters of a

million dollars in medical expenses and has gone through all of his savings. >> nothing will ever, ever be the same again. in an instant i went from being strong, healthy, able to conquer anything, and like through absolutely no fault of my own, i mean i am just devastated. it should have never happened. it just should have never, ever, ever happened. >> what a topic, and we live with it. those who drive every day of our lives. kay, how many states have laws on the books, and has that made a difference? >> great question. 39 states right now have some kind of law that outlaws texting and driving for all age drivers. five other states have them for teen drivers, and four states right now as we speak are considering new legislation, which all sounds great. but when you really delve into it, those laws often don't have teeth. they don't have punishments attached to them so prosecutors can't really go after the driver. that's a big problem.

also enforcement, there's no breathalyzer for testing. when you come up on an accident scene, law enforcement can't necessarily prove that someone was texting. >> but at least one of the cases in part one i recognized, i'm familiar with it, they went through her web history, saw the device and figured the math that she had been texting at the time of the accident. >> right. and one of the things that families and victims' advocates are saying is what we have to do is make it a part of the process, that every time there's a suspicion that maybe the person was on their phone, the police should immediately subpoena those phone records, go after that. >> what about these technologies, you read about them on occasion that make your device inert when you're in the car? >> there's some new apps now that will when you exceed 15 or 20 miles an hour, your phone basically goes dead and sometimes it will send a message to anyone trying to text you and say kate's driving right now, don't bother her, which seems like a really great idea. >> they're going to need something like the mothers against drunk driving model. >> we need a cultural change is

what the advocates will alltel you. until we as a society -- we're sort of like we were 40 years ago with drunk driving when it comes to texting. we need to change our attitudes before everything else and people will stop dying. >> kate snow, thank you very much. good to see you. up next, a kind of field of dreams on ice. what happens when a real pro visits your kid's game? we'll have that for you next. we make things you didn't even know you wanted. like a spoon fork. spray cheese. and jeans made out of sweatpants. so grab yourself some new prilosec otc wildberry. [ male announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.

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welcome back. "hockey" here and when i do non-hockey fans should not turn away from this next story, quite the contrary. of course there has been no hockey this season. the nhl lockout has gone on for 113 days. that means everyone connected with hockey has been idle, and that includes the great doc emrick, the voice of hockey on nbc. he is the hockey play-by-play man as good at his craft as anyone on the air today. we felt for doc and we wondered how he was staying in good vocal condition, so we had an idea and doc was game. he chose a game in his hometown of troy, michigan. it's not the nhl, it's not the rangers versus flyers, it's the st. clair shore saints versus the troy lady sting in the girls 12 and under league and it was action enough for our doc. >> and we are about ready to

start this game. all the girls are age 9 through 12. off the stick saerat center, sh gets by one, trying to get possession. and a great save was made in goal. >> i got up and just boom! >> way to go. >> sydney mcafee got this one as far as center. mcafee wants to be a veterinarian one day. has hermit crabs as a pet. score! tremendous shot from manny bach and mad dog has put her team ahead. one of the things that oftentimes you don't count on in a north american pro game is that the numbers get screened off by ponytails. and i've been caught a couple of times. >> come on, save! >> a quick shot.

the sting has scored out of another net mouth scramble and it is 3-1. so mary claire sharky is back to play defensively. she said before the game i have watched miracle, i am preparing for the 2022 olympics. you have to have goals. and the buzzer sounds to end the game. two teams separated by 20 miles put on a great hockey show tonight. >> doc emrick with the call. our thanks to the great doc emrick and the girls in the 12 and under league in troy, michigan. up next after a break, and keep walking during these commercial breaks, by the way, we'll tell you how many calories you're burning. we'll dig into some recent news that deserves more attention, including the dog accused of being a lion. what's better? faster or slower? [ all kids ] faster! ok, what's fast? um, my mom's car and a cheetah. okay. a spaceship. a spaceship.

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here's your answer for all of you who dutfully exercised region on its ear. before you buy a used car, please look at this picture. 15,000 cars damage ed by hurrice sandy parked door to door on the runway and taxiways of an airport on long island. not all of them were totaled. some of them will go on the used car auction market. and so for years to come, buyer beware, they're out there and

some of them have taken on water. if you believe, as woody allen does, that manhattan is the center of the world, here's a photo for you. a 3-d view taken from high above with central park as the central feature, and the buildings seeming to yield out of the way, out of respect. those orange-brown circles are softball fields, and that one right there is where we practiced for our epic showdown with the team from "the daily show" and it wasn't pretty. >> where's your mommy? >> you back off, evening news team. >> turning skyward, according to one estimate out this week, among just the stars we can see in the milky way, an estimated 17% of them have planets orbiting them that are the size of planet earth. that means about one in every six stars has a place like ours nearby. with 100 billion stars in just our galaxy, that means there could be 17 billion planet

earths out there. just think of what this means. >> our whole solar system could be like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. >> even without weed, it's still amazing. and more space, because we love space. if you live under these lines, that means you can see the international space station fly overhead over the next few days. you can learn exactly when and where on the web. there are six people up there right now, and we now know some of them will come back upwards of 3% taller, because space travel takes the weight off your spine, loosens things up a bit, makes you taller than before you went into space. and the minute they're back, the cleveland cavaliers could use all of them. but wait, there's more. news from mars that the whole red planet image is a sham. the little curiosity rover used its little brush for the first time and the place turns out to

be as white as thurston howell iii, it's just red dust on top of it. there's diet news. a new electronic device called the happy fork. it lights up, beeps and vibrates when it senses you're eating too fast. and once again, thank you, modern science, from saving us from the horrible alternative of choosing to eat less. a somber image emerged this week, never before seen in the west. this is hiroshima just minutes after the atomic bomb was dropped. eyewitnesses always said the mushroom cloud separated into two. this was taken by a japanese photographer several miles away. that mushroom cloud and the bomb that caused it killed an estimated 150,000 people. on a much softer note, how about this for awkward. that first teenage dance, and suddenly you said nailed when a slow song starts and you just can't stand far enough apart. well, fast forward to this, same couple, ten years later.

jeffrey and alexa are now mr. and mrs. schultz, and they couldn't be cuter. while they didn't quite exude true love back then, they sure do now. jeffrey is in the marine reserves. and our favorite image of the week is the lion dog of norfolk. this is charlie, and he's three. this was an actual call to 911 when someone spotted him walking through town. >> there is a lion that ran up off the street, a baby lion. it was about the size of a labrador retriever. >> in fact he's a labradoodle and not a lion and he happens to be groomed in the distinctive style of the old dominion university mascot. he's a good dog who could never stalk or kill anything. he has cool hair and he seems to know it, and he's decided to own the look. we love charlie. and what do you bet there will be lion hair cuts, depending on the make, on dogs all across this country henceforth. tomorrow morning on "today," awards season has arrived.

we learn the academy award nominations today. tomorrow savannah guthrie will be live from l.a. previewing the golden globes, which, by the way, the whole "today" show team will cover this sunday in the run-up to the awards broadcast sunday night, conveniently here on nbc. that's tomorrow on "today." next week on "rock center," insider accounts that have never been broadcast before about scientology, including harry smith's exclusive interview with paul hagas. the oscar winning writer and director is the most prom negligent scientology member in hollywood to break away from the organization after spending more than 30 years as a member. he reveals his experiences for the first time on television. >> why did you finally leave the church? >> i was ashamed of my own stupidity. of how i could have been so purposely blind for so many years. >> harry also talks to the pulitzer prize-winning author

lawrence wright who has written a controversial new book about the church of scientology. that is next week's broadcast of "rock center." for all the good folks who work so hard to bring you this week's broadcast, thank you for being here with us. for now, good night from new york. your late local news begins now. a south bay family in turmoil after the hit-and-run death of their son. next the disturbing new details the family discovered about the night he was killed and why they feel police have dropped the ballen this investigation. the news is next!

>> he deserves to have justice. >> right now, a family's pain only gets worse. why they're now upset with investigators after their son is killed after a night out in the south bay. good evening, thank you for joining us. i'm raj mathai. jessica its off tonight. a loaf cull fa a local family's son was killed by a hit-and-run driver. a lot more to the case, possible bar fight and frantic 911 call. why are they upset? a story only on nbc bay area. we arene